Red Rock was better than ever. The instructors were
amazing, the setting was beautiful, old friendships were renewed and
new friends were made. As they say - if you missed it, you missed
it!

Just some of the highlights were Chris Tyler's class on Polyspline
SDS modeling, Jean Probert showing how to get the most out of Illustrator
and Strata 3D CX and Dave Winslow demonstrating how to model
using hierarchy.

Special thanks go to Colin Smith, noted author for McGraw Hill
Osborn and owner of PhotoshopCafe.com, for showing the inside tricks
on using Photoshop CS with Strata 3D CX.

Also, thanks to Michael Tompert and Jim Preston for their
very interesting presentations. Last, but not least, thanks to Bill
Dresselhaus for his lunch time presentation on where design is
going and what we can do to take advantage of these trends.

For more information about these excellent instructors and to learn
more about their presentations, click
here.

Congrats to Derek Wolfe - the winner of the Red Rock
challenge. Out of a total of 28 excellent entries and 13 individual
winners, Derek walked away with the grand prize - or is that flew
away?

Derek's image graced all of the Red Rock materials and Derek himself
was treated to a trip to Zion Canyon for this year's event.

Here's your chance to learn all the capabilities
of the the new Strata 3D CX version! WestRim Digital Arts will conduct
the Strata 3D ProSkills Course in Toronto, Canada, on 28-30 July.

You'll be learning from the famous Michael Luscombe, founder of StrataCafe,
featured Instructor at the Red Rock Revival, and one of the top Strata-powered
digital artists.

During this 3-day hands-on course, you'll receive expert instruction
and lots of individual attention as Michael teaches the essentials
of modeling, texturing, rendering, lighting, explains the new features
of Strata 3D CX, and follows up with upper-level techniques. Now is
your chance to learn how to achieve the world-class results that Michael
and Strata are famous for!

Leif Buckley is a professional multimedia designer and veteran
Strata user, with years of experience in 3D modeling, animation,
graphic arts, video and multimedia/web development, package design
and project management.

He is also an ardent member of the Strata
Community and is well-known to the many users he has helped over the
years.

New to CX is the Polyspline SDS (subdivision surface) modeler.
In this quick tutorial, Derek Lofgreen shows you how to lathe a
Bezier curve, convert it to a polygon object and SDS model from
there. He shows just how easy it is to add a handle to an object
with the modeler. Where you go from there is up to you!

Strata 3D CX now supports HDRI (High
Dynamic Range Images). The benefit of HDRI is they contain more data
(64 bit) and can be used with the new Lightdomes to create extremely
realistic lighting in Raydiosity, higher quality texture maps, more
realistic reflections, etc.

Christian Bauer from Austria has provided a great HDRI image of
the Vienna Parliament. This HDRI is high resolution (2048x1024)
and works very well as a Lightdome, visible or reflected background.

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